66th Season
From October 2019 to March 2020
Endymion Quintet
Saturday 5th October 2019, 7.30pm
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
| Mark Van de Wiel | Clarinet |
| Krysia Osostowicz | Violin |
| Clara Bass | Violin |
| Asdis Vladimarsdottir | Viola |
| Jane Salmon | Cello |
| Schubert | String Trio in B Flat Major D471 |
| Mozart | Clarinet Quintet in A Major K581 |
| Brahms | Clarinet Quintet in B Minor Op 115 |
“The brilliant Endymion” (Sunday Times) exists to deliver world-class performances of chamber music throughout the UK and abroad. It nurtures the UK’s most dynamic and original composers, inspires younger and new audiences and champions mixed chamber music of all genres through performance, commissioning, recording and promotion. Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019, Endymion has been called one of the few chamber groups as much at home with Mozart as with Birtwistle.
Endymion has appeared at most of the major British festivals, giving its tenth Proms performance in 2014, and was in residence at Blackheath Concert Halls for several years.
Endymion celebrated both its 30th and 35th birthdays at Kings Place. The 30th birthday commissions were recorded for NMC and joined a host of other discs by Endymion including works by Lutyens, Stravinsky, Britten and Magnus Lindberg.
Maggini Quartet
Saturday 9th November 2019, 7.30pm
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
| Julian Leaper | Violin |
| Ciaran McCabe | Violin |
| Martin Outram | Viola |
| Michal Kaznowski | Cello |
| Haydn | Quartet Op 20 No 6 in A Major |
| Bridge | Quartet No 1 in E Minor |
| Beethoven | Quartet Op 18 No 1 in F Major |
Formed in 1988, the Maggini Quartet is one of the finest British string quartets. Its acclaimed recordings have won international awards including Gramophone Chamber Music Award of the Year, Diapason d’Or of the Year and a Cannes Classical Award, and have twice been nominated for Grammy Awards. The Quartet’s most recent project has been recording the complete Mendelssohn quartet cycle for Meridian Records.
The Maggini Quartet appears frequently in prestigious concert series at home and abroad and makes regular media broadcasts. In addition to their concert activity, the members of the Quartet have an international reputation as chamber music coaches. They hold several UK residencies and have worked at the UK’s senior music institutions.
Onyx Brass
Saturday 7th December 2019, 7.30pm
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
| Niall Keatley | Trumpet |
| Alan Thomas | Trumpet |
| Andrew Sutton | Horn |
| Amos Miller | Trombone |
| David Gordon Shute | Tuba |
| Rameau | Entrée de Polymnie |
| Bach | Fugue in A Flat Major |
| Shostakovich | Fugue in A Flat Major |
| Couperin | Suite |
| Traditional | Wexford Carol |
| Bach | Nun komm der Heiden Heiland |
| Bach | ‘Chromatic’ Fugue |
| Mark Nightingale | For Rosie |
| Tim Jackson | Anything But |
| Jason Rebello | Inevitable Outcome |
Having celebrated its 25th anniversary in the 2017-18 season, Onyx Brass continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, presenting it in the entertaining and articulate style that has become the group’s trademark.
BBC Music Magazine described the group as “easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain”, and Gramophone hailed “some of the most thrilling chamber brass-playing of its kind”.
Education is a large part of the remit of Onyx Brass: workshops and master-classes range from Primary School to the Juilliard School. The group is currently resident ensemble of Imperial College, University of London.
Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello
Kumi Matsuo, piano
sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust
Saturday 8th Febuary 2020, 7.30pm
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
| Beethoven | Cello Sonata No 5 in D Major Op 102 No 2 |
| Myaskovksy | Cello Sonata No 1 in D Major Op 12 |
| Grieg | Cello Sonata in A Minor Op |
| Arensky | Romance No 2 Op 56 |
| Piatigorsky | Variations on a Theme of Paganini |
Kristiana Ignatjeva is studying for her Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London with professor Melissa Phelps. She has obtained degrees with distinction in Master of Performance and Bachelor of Music. In 2010 she joined the Purcell School of Music where she studied with professor Robert Cohen.
Kristiana has won many international and national competitions, recently being awarded the Muriel Taylor Scholarship. She has participated in many masterclasses with many tutors, including Raphael Wallfisch. She has given recitals across Europe and North America in major concert halls, including the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall.
Kristiana plays on an Italian cello by Matteo Goffriller kindly loaned by the Royal College of Music.
Rautio Trio
Saturday 7th March 2020, 7.30pm
Berkhamsted Civic Centre
| Jane Gordon | Violin |
| Victoria Simonsen | Cello |
| Jan Rautio | Piano |
| Haydn | Trio in E Flat Major Hob XV:10 |
| Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht Op 4 (arr Steuermann) |
| Beethoven | Trio in B Flat Major Op 97 ‘Archduke’ |
The Rautio Piano Trio is an award-winning ensemble, known for their innovative and captivating performances. Alongside the cornerstones of the repertoire, the Trio presents imaginative programmes incorporating rarely-performed historic works.
The Trio has released two critically acclaimed discs for Resonus Classics. Their début disc features Mozart piano trios recorded on a fortepiano and was hailed by the Observer as ‘an impressive achievement’, receiving multiple five-star reviews. The Trio’s latest release, described as ‘ elegantly effervescent ‘ (Gramophone, 2018) includes the world premiere recording of Ferdinand Hiller’s Trio No 6 in C Minor alongside Beethoven and Schubert.
The Trio has performed at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank, Kings Place, Bridgewater Hall, St George’s Bristol, on BBC Radio 3, extensively throughout the UK and in France, Austria, Germany and Israel.
